SUMMERTIME BLUES: This year’s crop of summer clerks was on the cutting edge of a changing industry. That meant plenty of job-offer worries.
Considering the way law firms have been shedding attorneys and staffers, it’s hardly a surprise that being a summer clerk this year wasn’t exactly the full five-star experience the summer class of 2009 may have dreamed about in law school.
Instead of being courted and catered to, this year’s summer class came face to face with the rough realities of the continuing economic downturn. “The economic times suck,” one clerk at New York’s Skadden, Arps, Meagher, Slate & Flom wrote bluntly in response to our most recent summer associates survey. “The firm can’t change that. But the times have made for a difficult summer.” A Bryan Cave intern put it this way: “It is a scary time to be a law student.”
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